Does process priority realtime guarantee dynamic thread priority remain at realtime levels

Question

I am using a voice app on my PC.  When my PC load gets a bit heavy, I have very poor audio quality.  I changed my app to realtime and monitored the wdmaud.drv thread spawned by my app. I found that even when my app's process priority was at realtime, the dynamic priority of the audio driver thread dipped to below 22 (dropped to 6) and I experienced poor audio.

How I can give realtime priority to wdmaud.drv so that it won’t switch it back to a lower priority during my call.

Answer 1

Hi Joyce,

To set realtime priority to wdmaud.drv, see the steps below:

1. Go to Task Manager > More details (at the left corner) > Details
2. Right-click on wdmaud.drv > Set Priority > Realtime

Let us know how it goes.